Jumble, America's #1 Scrambled Word Game, Arrives on the iPhone

Digital media publisher UCLICK® has partnered with Tribune Media Services (TMS) to create an all new Jumble® Classic for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This is the first official Jumble game ever developed on this platform and it takes full advantage of the high-resolution touch screen, drag and drop feature, tap and zoom functions and accelerometer.

Kansas City, MO and Chicago, IL (PRWEB) June 11, 2009 -- For more than 60 Years, Jumble has been one of the most popular word games in the world not only in print, more recently online and now on the iPhone. Digital media publisher UCLICK has partnered with Tribune Media Services (TMS) to create an all new Jumble Classic for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This is the first official Jumble game ever developed on this platform and it takes full advantage of the high-resolution touch screen, drag and drop feature, tap and zoom functions and accelerometer.

Jumble has entertained millions of people with its simple mechanics and brain-teasing anagrams. And now on the iPhone, players can compete against the world with live online rankings. Beat the clock and your personal best times to become one of the "Movers and Shakers."

"Uclick is very proud to partner with TMS to create Jumble Classic for the iPhone." said Uclick CEO, Douglas Edwards. "Jumble is one of America's most loved and played word games and now's the time to exploit the unique attributes of the iPhone and iPod."

"Jumble is a perfect word-game application for the iPhone because it takes advantage of so many of the iPhone's capabilities," said Stephen Tippie, VP of Licensing and New Market Development for TMS. "Teaming with Uclick on the game development ensured that we'd get a challenging new spin on an interactive version of Jumble."

Features include:

•    Double tap and drag-and-drop controls

•    Accelerometer Shaking Feature - Shake to return lettered tiles to their starting position

•    Live Online Rankings

•    100 days worth of puzzles!

Jumble Classic is available now in the iPhone App Store for $3.99 (US). To get the Jumble Classic app and other favorite games, comic books, graphic novels and manga for the iPhone and iPod touch go to the Uclick Web App by typing Uclick.com into the Safari browser or visit the App Store on the iPhone or on iTunes.

Click here (http://bit.ly/15QkRq) to go directly to the Jumble Classic page on iTunes.

About UCLICK:

UCLICK® is the leading digital entertainment provider of humor, comic strips, manga, graphic novels, editorial cartoons, and other content for desktop, web and mobile phones. Uclick is also the leading creator and distributor of crosswords, and other word and number puzzles. Partners featuring Uclick content include the leading consumer portals Yahoo!, MSNBC.com, New York Times, Slate.com, washingtonpost.com, CNN, USA Today, and AOL. Uclick features include the top brand franchises Garfield, Doonesbury, Calvin and Hobbes, Paul Frank, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TOKYOPOP, USA Today, Pat Sajak, Wyland, and many more. Uclick creative content and services are available through the GoComics.com website, U.S. mobile phone operators, the iTunes App Store, and other distributors worldwide. UCLICK, LLC is a division of Andrews McMeel Universal, the leading newspaper syndicate and publisher of humor books and calendars in North America.

For more information on Uclick, visit www.uclick.com.

About Tribune Media Services

Tribune Media Services (TMS) is a leading domestic and international provider of information and entertainment products for print, electronicand on-air media. It distributes television and movie listings and related editorial content under the TMS and Zap2it brands; syndicates and licenses comics, features and opinion columns; creates and syndicates a variety of online information products; licenses editorial content from national periodicals; and manages national advertising networks. Through its partnership with the McClatchy Company, TMS also markets news, photos, graphics and multimedia content to media clients worldwide through the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT). Headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Los Angeles, Queensbury, N.Y., Dallas, Milwaukee, Amsterdam, London, Amman (Jordan) and Hong Kong, TMS is a subsidiary of Tribune Company. For more information about TMS and its products and services, visit tmsfeatures.com.

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